Speaker Johnson announces House vote on Epstein files for week of Nov. 17

Speaker Mike Johnson announced on Nov. 13, 2025 that the House would vote the following week on H.R. 4405, the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Johnson used his speaker authority to schedule the bill directly, bypassing the seven-legislative-day waiting period that discharge rules would have imposed. Rep. Ro Khanna said: "If you can't block the parade, you might as well get ahead of it."